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Connect Uptimely to VS Code and GitHub Copilot

Configure

Register the MCP server

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json, merging with any existing entry rather than replacing it:

{
  "servers": {
    "uptimely": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://app.getuptimely.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Sign in

Authorize the connection

VS Code shows a sign-in prompt the first time the server is started from the MCP view. The root key is servers, not mcpServers. Equivalent one-liner: code --add-mcp '{"name":"uptimely","type":"http","url":"https://app.getuptimely.com/api/mcp"}'.

Verify

Confirm it worked

Ask VS Code and GitHub Copilot to call search_tools, then execute_typescript with return await external_uptimely_project_list({});. A client that lists uptimely_project_list as its own tool can call it directly. A JSON list of your projects — even an empty list — means the connection is live.

If you also configured the SDK or REST API, this should answer HTTP 200 with a JSON body whose data is a list of monitors:

curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer $UPTIMELY_API_KEY" https://app.getuptimely.com/v1/monitors
Reference

More

Read on VS Code and GitHub Copilot's own docs (checked 2026-09-22): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/mcp-servers

Or fetch the raw, machine-readable instructions this page is rendered from: https://getuptimely.com/agent-setup/prompt.md